Between sacred and profane
Subtitle: researching religion and popular culture
By: edited by Gordon Lynch.
Contributors: Lynch, Gordon, 1968-
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781845115401
Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Popular culture -- Religious aspects.; Religious communities.; Identification (Religion); Rites and ceremonies.; Mass media -- Religious aspects.; Internet -- Religious aspects.; Christianity and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-178) and index.
Table of contents: value: Why study popular culture? or, how to build a case for your thesis in a religious studies or theology department / Lynn Schofield Clark; value: Studying religion and popular culture: prospects, presuppositions, procedures / David Morgan; value: Questioning media and religion / Jolyon Mitchell; value: Reflections on the past and future of the study of religion and popular culture / Jeffrey H. Mahan; value: "What we make of the world": the turn to 'culture' in theology and the study of religion / Elaine Graham; value: The eucharist and the turn to culture / Pete Ward; value: Popular culture scholarship as a spiritual exercise: thinking ethically with(out) Christianity / Tom Beaudoin; value: House Negro with a field Negro mentality: new positions in theology and culture / Robert Beckford; value: What is this 'religion' in the study of religion and popular culture? / Gordon Lynch; value: On a mission from God: African American music and the nature/meaning of conversion and religious life / Anthony B. Pinn; value: Some concluding reflections / Gordon Lynch.